Fierce Healthcare November 2, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services took into account the struggles hospitals faced against COVID-19 when calculating fines for poor readmission rates. Does the program do what it was meant to do? (Getty Images)
Thousands of hospitals across the U.S. yesterday received welcome news thanks to the government considering the battle against COVID-19 when determining fines for poor readmission rates.
Those fines, levied by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), will be the lowest in fiscal year 2023 than they’ve been in a decade.
CMS also won’t include information gathered in its audit of hospital readmissions from the first half of 2020. In addition, the agency won’t factor in patients readmitted with...
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